Overview

One overall takeaway is that gradualist approaches will not achieve those goals by 2030. Breakthroughs will be necessary in science, in the development of new products and services, and in institutional systems. Each of the experts responded with stories that reflect big ambitions for what the future may bring. Their stories are not projections or forecasts as to what will happen; they are reasoned and reasonable conjectures about what could happen. The editors’ intent is to provide a glimpse into the possibilities for the future of sustainable development. At a time when many people worry about stalled progress on the economic, social, and environmental challenges of sustainable development, Breakthrough is a reminder that the promise of a better future is within our grasp, across a range of domains. It will interest anyone who wonders about the world’s economic, social, and environmental future.

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Author:   Homi Kharas ,  John W. McArthur ,  Izumi Ohno
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Brookings Institution
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.372kg
ISBN:  

9780815739654

ISBN 10:   0815739656
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   25 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Acknowledgments 1. Breakthroughs: Why We Need Them for Sustainable Development Homi Kharas, John W. McArthur, and Izumi Ohno 2. Breakthrough Technologies for Pandemic Preparedness Yolanda Botii-Lodovico and Pardis Sabeti 3. Fixing the Real “World Wide Web”: Breakthroughs at the Interface of Food, Agriculture, and Large-Scale Computation Zachary Bogue 4. Too Cheap to Meter: The Promise of Unstored Solar Power Vijay Modi 5. Interspecies Money Jonathan Ledgard 6. Predictable Disasters: AI and the Future of Crisis Response Tarek Ghani and Grant Gordon 7. How AgriTech Is Transforming Traditional Agriculture in Emerging Markets: “Think Big, Act Fast, Start Small” Lesly Goh 8. Eyes on the Planet: Toward Zero Deforestation Hiroaki Okonogi, Elji Yamada, and Takahiro Morita 9. Redefining the Smart City for Sustainable Development Tomoyuki Naito 10. How Digital Systems Will Transform the Future of Money and Development Tomicah Tillemann 11. A Short Story of Transmediary Platforms Bright Simons 12. Unleashing Meaningful Breakthroughs Ann Mei Chang Contributors

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"Focusing on UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)--ending poverty, malnutrition, deforestation, and climate change--Kharas, McArthur, and Ohno ask what key ingredients produce nonlinear breakthroughs. They argue that a gradualist approach will fail and that exponential progress comes only with better policy and politics as well as technology. The book's 12 chapters draw on more than a dozen authors with expertise in science, business, civil society, and policy making. Overall, they find that best practices for innovation include user-centered design, understanding the context and concerns of affected communities, smart risk-taking, designing for scale and sustainability from the start, and collaboration. Chapter 4 examines utility-scale solar power, finding it nearly free as costs lie with battery storage and metering rather than with the electrical power itself. Chapter 7 targets smallholder agriculture with the maxim ""think big, act fast, start small"" to help improve agronomic decisions regarding activities such as fertilizing, watering, and harvesting. Chapter 9 explores ""smart cities"" as more than just a venue for showcasing new technology, from transportation to utilizing sensors for collecting large data sets for AI analysis. Throughout, contributing authors rightly recognize that new breakthrough technologies risk primarily benefiting the world's wealthiest, further exacerbating inequities borne by poor and rural populations. Highly recommended.-- ""Choice Reviews"""

"Focusing on UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)--ending poverty, malnutrition, deforestation, and climate change--Kharas, McArthur, and Ohno ask what key ingredients produce nonlinear breakthroughs. They argue that a gradualist approach will fail and that exponential progress comes only with better policy and politics as well as technology. The book's 12 chapters draw on more than a dozen authors with expertise in science, business, civil society, and policy making. Overall, they find that best practices for innovation include user-centered design, understanding the context and concerns of affected communities, smart risk-taking, designing for scale and sustainability from the start, and collaboration. Chapter 4 examines utility-scale solar power, finding it nearly free as costs lie with battery storage and metering rather than with the electrical power itself. Chapter 7 targets smallholder agriculture with the maxim ""think big, act fast, start small"" to help improve agronomic decisions regarding activities such as fertilizing, watering, and harvesting. Chapter 9 explores ""smart cities"" as more than just a venue for showcasing new technology, from transportation to utilizing sensors for collecting large data sets for AI analysis. Throughout, contributing authors rightly recognize that new breakthrough technologies risk primarily benefiting the world's wealthiest, further exacerbating inequities borne by poor and rural populations. Highly recommended."

Author Information

Development, housed in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings. In that capacity, he studies policies and trends influencing developing countries, including aid to poor countries, the emergence of the middle class, and global governance and the G-20. He previously served as interim vice president and director of the Global Economy and Development program. John W. McArthur is senior fellow and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution. He is also a senior advisor to the UN Foundation and a member of the Board of Governors for the International Development Research Centre. Izumi Ohno is a senior research advisor at the JICA Ogata Research Institute. She is also a professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS).

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